Adding Some Punch

Anyone would think that the Rangers were looking to break the NHL record for penalty minutes after watching GM Glen Sather stockpile players this off-season.

It’s hard to know how much this will impact the Rangers roster but one thing seems assured, Hartford will be an uncomfortable place for visiting teams this coming season. The trend started last year by the Rangers is to get tougher, and that they did when they traded for Sandy McCarthy, Brad Brown and to a lesser extent Michal Grosek. It was apparent that Sather was attempting to build a team more suited to the Atlantic Division than the previous unsuccessful models.